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• Google have integrated Facebook fan page status messages into latest results

  Phil Leggetter 10:02 am on February 27, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Bing (3), Facebook (2), Google, real-time data (6)

  According to this article by Read Write Web, Bing have exclusive access to the data created by Facebook user status updates and Google have access to the data from Facebook fan page updates. It’s interesting to see that this data is so highly valued that there is clearly a bidding war over access to certain types of data. Which is more valuable?

  As of today, Facebook Fan Page status updates will begin appearing in Google search results, according to a tweet by Google. The announcement means that we will begin seeing results from the nearly 3 million fan pages, but not from the more than 400 million users.

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
   

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• How does Google Real-Time Search work?

  Phil Leggetter 2:18 pm on December 12, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Ajax (2), Google, JavaScript (5), Le Web, real-time (5), real-time web (15)

  On or around the 12th of December 2009 Google released a feature they are calling “real-time search”.

  Our real-time search enables you to discover breaking news the moment it’s happening, even if it’s not the popular news of the day, and even if you didn’t know about it beforehand.

  Although I’d still argue that we’re not seeing the real-time web with this solution I thought I’d go in to a bit of detail about how Google are achieving this HTTP polling solution.

  Summary

  • Google are consuming and indexing real-time data from multiple social networks
  • It’s not real-time HTTP PUSH yet, it’s HTTP PULL using a polling interval
  • The polling interval seems to vary but this needs to be confirmed.
  • The polling result returns an encoded JSON response containing the next request to be made and the HTML of any new results. These results are injected into the “Latest results” section of the page
  • The HTML returned is quite verbose and could be refined
  • 87% from a sample of 30 polled requests returned no new results meaning the request was a waste of resources

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• Microsoft Bing.com round table thoughts

  Phil Leggetter 8:07 pm on July 1, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Bing (3), Bing.com, Google, Internet (12), Microsoft (4), NDCG, Search, web 2.0 (4)

  A couple of days ago I blogged that I was going to attend a Microsoft bing round table. I’ve now attended and here are the key points and interesting facts that I took from the event. You can also search for #meetbing on twitter for relevant tweets.
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